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From: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Alper Gun <alpergun@google.com>,
Dionna Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com>,
Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: SEV: improve the code readability for ASID management
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 10:25:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL715WKVZqHG0sJhTn-ebJKjdj5pUQedL9kJjVRWMWoZGbzHFg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71a905a1-0a6f-0d7a-f8fe-237b9e5af05c@redhat.com>
Hi Paolo,
Thanks. I think Sean's suggestion makes sense. I will update it with
that one and remove the 'fixes' line.
Regards
-Mingwei
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 9:53 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/08/21 18:17, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >
> > Rather than adjusting the bitmap index, what about simply umping the bitmap size?
> > IIRC, current CPUs have 512 ASIDs, counting ASID 0, i.e. bumping the size won't
> > consume any additional memory. And if it does, the cost is 8 bytes...
> >
> > It'd be a bigger refactoring, but it should completely eliminate the mod-by-1
> > shenanigans, e.g. a partial patch could look like
>
> This is also okay by me if Mingwei agrees, of course. I have already
> queued his patch, but I can replace it with one using a nr_asids-sized
> bitmap too.
>
> Paolo
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-02 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-31 1:13 [PATCH] KVM: SEV: improve the code readability for ASID management Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-02 13:38 ` Joerg Roedel
2021-08-02 16:00 ` Mingwei Zhang
2021-08-02 16:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-02 16:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-08-02 17:25 ` Mingwei Zhang [this message]
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